I am just going to talk a little about my time with the Game Informer Online Community. I started way back in 2009 with a post about Fable 2 and some odd notion about being a phantom gamer.... I'm not really sure what that was supposed to mean, but I think I can look back at it now and laugh. At that time I wasn't sure what I wanted my blog to be, and I wasn't really sure that I could even do a blog properly and continue to generate content for it. I struggled for a while. I remember when Andy McNamara accepted my friend request becoming my first friend on here and then left a comment on my wall about my hero image. I was so excited!

I am just going to talk a little about my time with the Game Informer Online Community. I started way back in 2009 with a post about Fable 2 and some odd notion about being a phantom gamer.... I'm not really sure what that was supposed to mean, but...
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I have been around this site for a while now. In fact, I started posting blogs back in 2009 and they were… less than great in my opinion. I hope that I have grown as a blogger since then and put out more interesting content now that I am more experienced...
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The first part of Building Better Games talked about the depiction of women in gaming. In part two, I will be talking about how games shy away from tough topics. (Warning: before reading, please note that these are my opinions and I am sorry if they offend...
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This is the sixth installment in the Casting the Games series. SeaNanners is a Call of Duty commentator working through Machinima that has a sizable backlog of content posted on Youtube. Unlike Siraz, a commentator previously spotlighted by Casting the...
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As some of you may notice, Don Quixote is reminiscent of my GIO name, Jack the Quixotic Gamer. This is because the word quixotic derives from the title of Miguel de Cervantes 17th century novel Don Quixote about an old man that goes mad and decides to...
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“War. War never changes.” – Fallout 3 Looking back over the years, there have been many games focused on the biggest war ever fought in the history of man. Many have wondered at the fact that so many games have tread over the same ground...
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If I could paint you a picture of this game I would need only one color: red. Seriously, this game has so much blood coming out of enemies you might start to think that they had been pumped full of grape juice. The combat is bloody, fast, and frantic.

If I could paint you a picture of this game I would need only one color: red. Seriously, this game has so much blood coming out of enemies you might start to think that they had been pumped full of grape juice. The combat is bloody, fast, and frantic...
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I think we all know the golden rule: Don’t be a tool. These days it seems like whenever I login to League of Legends or Halo or Call of Duty, I find my experience ruined by people berating each other for being terrible or calling each other names. This is partly due to the way the metagame is constructed rewarding teams that do well and having players fixated on that instead of the enjoyment of the game. But all the blame can’t rest on the way that games are put together, because many online aspects of games are made very well and work wonderfully. No, the blame rests on us, the people using the videogames.

I think we all know the golden rule: Don’t be a tool. These days it seems like whenever I login to League of Legends or Halo or Call of Duty, I find my experience ruined by people berating each other for being terrible or calling each other names...
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Here is the thing if you might not have picked it up from the fact that I blog on a videogame website: I love playing videogames. I think that they offer us unique experiences, sensations, and opportunities that we just can’t get anywhere else. I have been g

Here is the thing if you might not have picked it up from the fact that I blog on a videogame website: I love playing videogames. I think that they offer us unique experiences, sensations, and opportunities that we just can’t get anywhere else....
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My last Time with Demos installment was less than enjoyable. I hoped to remedy this with a genre I have always loved (I harbor no such emotions for MMOs) Real-Time Strategy. It may come as a surprise that I have never played a game in the Total War franchise. So, I figured that for this Time with Demos I would take the opportunity to try it out.

My last Time with Demos installment was less than enjoyable. I hoped to remedy this with a genre I have always loved (I harbor no such emotions for MMOs) Real-Time Strategy. It may come as a surprise that I have never played a game in the Total War franchise...
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Recently Major League Gaming had a record setting event in Anaheim (a city probably best known for its 1992 role in the feature film The Mighty Ducks). They streamed over 35 million videos online, attendance was over 20,000, over 2.6 million hours of footage was consumed by viewers, and all of this between July 29th-31st. ESports is getting bigger, better, and more accepted by the general population. I, for one, love watching. I find it exciting and gripping. The way many of the games are played there can be 11th hour comebacks, and feats of strategic magic that are awesome to behold. Here are just a few of the reasons I love eSports:

Recently Major League Gaming had a record setting event in Anaheim (a city probably best known for its 1992 role in the feature film The Mighty Ducks). They streamed over 35 million videos online, attendance was over 20,000, over 2.6 million hours of...
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Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE It seems like everything these days is getting faster and people are finding more ways to remove bits of unpleasantness out different experiences. Gaming today seems like it is heading in the same direction...
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